As Boss Chen helped him get the approval, the money was transferred to the orphanage's account, and the modernization construction was put on the agenda.
Gu Weijing had received a reminder that the system experience points had arrived a few days ago.
With nearly 3,000 free experience points, he was filled with the satisfaction of becoming rich from a poor man.
He is not too anxious to point out the experience points during this period.
First of all, Gu Weijing still needs to save some experience points to use the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.
Secondly, he actually hasn't figured out how to distribute the experience points.
More than three thousand free experience points are a lot less than a lot, so if you really plan it casually, there won't be much left.
In the virtual panel, among the several feasible options, the first one that was considered to be eliminated was to water the [Miscellaneous Baiyi Tree].
This multi-art tree that can produce miscellaneous painting skills is as precious as the mythical wealth tree that can drop gold and silver.
For art students, "legendary" painting skills may be more valuable than real money.
Unfortunately, it is also a bottomless pit that devours experience.
Watering it once costs thousands of experience points, and it only has a "probability" to grow new branches.
The 3,000 experience points he had managed to accumulate were gone after three waterings. The harvest was uncertain, and it was very likely that he would be in vain.
Gu Weijing couldn't afford to play with this sapling for the time being.
All that's left is the painting panel.
Among the five major categories of painting, the three that Gu Weijing needs to use most now are Chinese painting, sketching, and oil painting.
His Chinese painting is relatively weak, and sketching is the foundation that is versatile in the field of painting and other types of painting. His oil painting techniques are nourished by the elementary treasure chest, and his experience bar for the first level of the profession has been mostly filled.
If you focus on oil painting, you should be able to break through to the second level of the profession directly.
Precisely because the choices looked so good, Gu Weijing was a little hesitant.
"What's wrong?"
Sakai Katsuko felt the pause of the people around her, turned her head, moved her wrist a little, and asked with a chuckle: "Do you feel tired?"
The girl stretched slightly.
In order to find a suitable angle to observe the orphanage from the window, and the space in the gatehouse was limited, they had to stand next to each other when copying.
A lot of time has passed since I started copying.
Katsuko Sakai went swimming at the beach this morning, and spent time shopping for jade with Mrs. Sakai at noon and evening. But until now, she was in good spirits and didn't feel tired at all.
Tacit understanding, warmth, joy, and a little sweetness,
Professor Kazunari Sakai has beautiful properties and brightly lit professional studios in Nagoya, Tokyo, Monaco and Provence in the south of France.
In the large studios that Katsuko was accustomed to, the lighting systems purchased to simulate various natural lights were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But she didn't feel that this simple hut with only two gas lamps was suitable for her.
This is simply the happiest painting process Sakai Katsuko has ever experienced. She almost wishes that this painting would be larger, so that time could freeze at this moment and never end.
"Light?" Gu Weijing said softly, "Light is not spiritual enough."
"You mean candlelight?"
Sakai Katsuko is indeed a painting genius, and her copying speed is slightly faster than that of Gu Weijing, who has made rapid progress with the help of the system during this period.
Gu Weijing has just finished painting the background and distant sky on the canvas, and she has already painted the main details of the church.
After thinking for a moment, she understood the meaning of Gu Weijing's words.
She inserted the paintbrush into the medium water bottle for cleaning, took Gu Weijing's palette from his hand, raised it to her forehead and looked at the sky outside through the smooth plastic plate, and then looked at the canvas in front of her. .
"It's actually pretty good..."
Sakai Katsuko turned the flame of the gas lamp to the brightest, moved slightly in front of herself, and compared Gu Weijing's and her own paints in the firelight.
As emergency lighting under no conditions,
Compared with cold flashlights or incandescent lamps that can easily reach thousands of lumens of brightness, gas lamps have weaker lighting capabilities, but their color temperature is warmer, making them more suitable for daily natural light.
Therefore, the look and feel of the canvas under a gas lamp is similar to that under sunlight, and the painted picture is not prone to color cast.
"Let me help you take a look, okay?" Sakai Katsuko tilted her head.
After getting Gu Weijing's consent, she took her oil painting knife and dipped some pearl white on the palette and smeared it for a while, then used a small clean brush to scratch the drawing board, and finally shook her head. .
"If I configure it, the color will be brighter. Maybe more linseed oil is added to the diluent, but... there is no essential difference... This is actually very accurate."
Miss Katsuko shook her head helplessly.
"Mere accuracy is not enough." Gu Weijing also shook his head.
"I understand, I understand what Gu Jun means very well. It's just that candlelight itself is difficult to draw, and stained glass is even more difficult to draw. The two combined together form a continuous colored light that is too difficult to grasp. I don't blame you. , this is not just a matter of grasping the paint." Sakai Katsuko said.
She has slightly more experience in oil painting than Gu Weijing. Even if her grasp of light is more accurate, she still doesn't have the magic touch to turn stone into gold.
Stained glass was once known as the art of the Kingdom of God in the Middle Ages because it was so changeable and unpredictable.
In the 12th century, the French king decided to build the famous Saint-Denis Cathedral as a place of worship and burial place. The dean at the time, Suger, decided to fill the interior of the building with the glory of heaven to enhance the spiritual connection between individuals and God. Making a mere mortal walking inside the building feel like walking in the kingdom of God.
For the first time in history,
Large areas of stained glass were used in the building, and the Saint-Denis Cathedral has become a landmark masterpiece in the history of architecture. It is still synonymous with the gorgeous and complex French architecture.
As the medium that separates humans from the realm of heaven,
Even experienced painters have to think twice before painting a stained glass window.
It is not made directly from a large piece of glass as many people think. Instead, two types of metal salts, manganese and cobalt, are added to the furnace during production. The glass will slowly deform and change the light transmittance. degree, and finally form small translucent glasses of different colors.
The craftsmen then cut these small glasses into hundreds or thousands of glass blocks the size of knuckles or the size of a baby's palm as needed, and then dipped them together with molten lead and spliced them into patterns on the window lattice.
There is even a category of specialized stained glass painters. Georges Rouault, a great oil painter in the 19th century who was famous for his ethereal brushwork, started out as an apprentice in glass painting.
Sakai Katsuko looked at the window of the old church of the orphanage not far away, and gently smoothed the hair from her forehead to the back of her head, looking a little regretful.
She knew that with their current techniques, it was impossible to accurately express these colors.
No two feathers are the same, and no two stained glass windows are the same.
Hundreds of different pieces of glass are like hundreds of different paint colors.
Because early glass production processes were limited and production batches had different furnaces, each small piece of glass may be unique.
Maybe two pieces of glass next to each other are emerald green or crimson, and they look similar, but the light transmittance will still change extremely slightly.
"Actually, I haven't painted the candlelight here well. It's such a pity for such a scenery." Sakai Katsuko looked at her canvas, not knowing whether she was comforting Gu Weijing or herself.
Candlelight made painting even more difficult.
Candles are not a stable source of projected light.
Its flames will jump, flicker, become larger and smaller, and become erratic.
Combined with stained glass, the painter wanted to accurately copy its color, just like throwing an apple on the side of the road and accurately passing through the garland thrown in the air by a circus clown on a speeding car.
Putting such complex and colorful colors on a canvas that is not even half the size of a palm is simply an impossible task.
She also put a lot of thought into handling the color of this part.
The finished effect... can't be said to be a bad painting, but it can only be considered unsatisfactory.
On the canvas in front of her, Katsuko Sakai used extremely thin and fine brushstrokes to bring out the luster of candles bit by bit, making it look ethereal and light enough.
But it lacks some flexibility.
It is a painting, but not a flame.
The pursuit of painting is to draw a three-dimensional look and tell a four-dimensional story on a two-dimensional plane.
The paintings of ordinary excellent painters are just paintings, while the paintings of first-class masters strive to create a real space in the eyes of the audience by relying on changes in focus and visual proportions.
The works of truly top masters are a movable feast.
In the classical period when entertainment was scarce, upper-class male and female aristocrats watched art exhibitions and sculptures just like young people today watch movies.
The most sought-after works are always those with a sense of time. They "move" and tell stories to you.
Looking at "Eighty-seven Immortals" is like attending a gathering of immortals in a misty fairy palace, while looking at "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is like stepping into the water, sand and green peaks, traveling around the mountains and rivers. Watching "Venus Rising from the Sea" is like witnessing a song and dance of the goddess of beauty, watching "Lamentation of the Christ" is like witnessing a religious enlightenment baptism...
Sakai Katsuko looked at the candlelight she painted on the canvas and sighed regretfully.
Her own skills are still stuck in the "copying on paper" part, and the painting is still two-dimensional.
The painting only looks similar, but the candlelight is not three-dimensional enough. There is a big gap between it and the real world in front of you, or the vivid feeling in the paintings of female painter Carroll.
Not to mention, letting the soul of the senior master come to life from her pen.
Sakai Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing beside her, who had been staring at the canvas, motionless, and felt a little worried.
"Gu Jun, don't force yourself so much that you waste your energy." She thought Gu Weijing seemed a little too anxious, so she persuaded him softly.
It is easy to get into trouble as a painter, and Impressionism is a high-risk area for occupational diseases.
Renoir, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh... this group of people all developed symptoms of mental problems when they were trying to figure out the light.
Jumping into rivers, anxiety, and self-mutilation are just the differences in severity of symptoms.
"Hey, don't think about it anymore. We can come and paint together often. You are very young and I am also very young. Maybe in a few months, maybe in a year or two, one day we will be able to achieve the desired effect."
Sakai Katsuko stretched out her hand from behind, gently covered Gu Weijing's eyes, and said softly.
It's just a pity that with the reconstruction of this Lucky Orphanage, it may be difficult to reproduce such good copying conditions today.
Ms. Katsuko also regrets this.
Gu Weijing broke away from Sakai Shengzi's hand.
He looked at the rainy night and the canvas in front of him, as if he had made some determination, and said in a light but firm voice: "I still want to give it a try."
[Determined as oil painting technique, allocate 2863 experience points? 】
He gently allocated his free experience points in the virtual panel and tilted it over the oil painting.
As he clicked OK, the experience slot that was still half empty was filled instantly. The next moment, Gu Weijing heard the system's prompt tone.
【Your oil painting skill level has been improved! 】
[Current level: Lv.5 professional painter·Level 2 (1/10000)]
After obtaining the system,
Gu Weijing has never allocated so many experience points to himself in a short period of time.
It may be a bit exaggerated to say that it was an old monk who taught the practice and received enlightenment. To say that he suddenly became enlightened is almost without water.
It’s not like the impact of knowledge cards, where a massive amount of information and knowledge pours into your mind.
The canvas is still the canvas, and the brush is still the same brush.
But he felt almost immediately that he had become different.
The increase of nearly three thousand experience points is enough to cause quantitative changes to lead to qualitative changes. An oil painting that takes a lot of time and effort can often only bring dozens of experience points.
Humans and machines cannot spend 24 hours painting oil paintings.
Normally, even if an art student uses acrylic, which is more convenient, the frequency of painting a complete oil painting a week is already quite high. This efficiency may only be achieved during training weeks.
For art students in East Asia, every professional training session for joint entrance exams or certain art competitions can almost make the students peel off their skin and slow down the pace. In Europe, there may be minor protection groups jumping out to accuse abuse. Children.
They also spend a lot of time on sketching and other professional courses, and it is not surprising that they even draw one painting a month.
In other words, without the help of the system, three thousand experience points may be a breakthrough that can only be achieved by ordinary people after several years or even ten years of hard work.
This requires you to have good talent and understanding and work hard enough.
Most people may never reach the second level of their profession throughout their lives. For example, his grandfather Gu Tongxiang, and the art teachers at Dewei.
Even Miss Sakai Katsuko is still a little far away from reaching the second level of her career.
How many people in the world are as lucky as Katsuko Sakai to have personal guidance from top-notch teachers since childhood?
What Gu Weijing noticed most was the improvement in his control over the pen.
(End of chapter)
